My home: Adriana Natcheva

My home: Adriana Natcheva

My home: Adriana Natcheva

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The living room

In the main room, Natcheva installed a full-height, arched sash window, framed and shuttered in mahogany, along with stunning chandeliers, and replaced the floor with sustainable ebony shipped from Patagonia.

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The kitchen

Slide away one panel and a little kitchen emerges, with a glinting, gold-veined Nero Portoro marble worktop and splashback, a bendy Foster tap from Italy, and slick but cheap-to-make MDF cupboards with Japanned handles.

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The mezzanine

One of Natcheva's tricks was to slip a sleeping mezzanine above the studio, reached by a short flight of mahongany steps.

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The bedroom

Leather-floored, the bedroom holds just the bed and a few of her favourite books. "It is like Noah's Ark, or a tree house. If I was marooned, this is where I should want to be."

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A ladder for the library

A library ladder runs along a track above the sliding doors that section off the flat, so that Natcheva can store and easily reach her books.

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The stairs

While the studio that Adriana Natcheva bought was unpromising but in a great location, she set about transforming it into a fabulous flat that can be cosy, romantic - or a party pad.

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The bathroom

Adriana Natcheva's bathroom is diminutive, and tiled in tiny black-and-white squares. With its immaculately black-grouted walls, ships' lamps, and old-fashioned stand washbasin, this room is rather sexy-Edwardian.